An employment think-tank has claimed that interest rates and inflation are lower as a result of high immigration, just weeks after a House of Lords committee questioned the national economic benefit...
A database of up-to-date and comprehensive information on addresses in England and Wales compiled by 376 councils is to be made available for commercial use next week.
Chancellor Alistair Darling has met his borrowing target for 2007/08 according to the latest public finance figures, providing some much-needed good news for the government on the economy.
The success of the government's curriculum reforms for 14-19 year olds could be jeopardised unless Whitehall departments make their individual lines of responsibility clear, MPs have warned.
Local Government Secretary Hazel Blears said this week that councils were vital in managing the impact of immigration on communities - but she rejected calls for a contingency fund for town halls.
East Belfast MP Peter Robinson is to take over from Ian Paisley as Northern Ireland's first minister when Paisley retires in May. Robinson, Paisley's long-time deputy in the Democratic Unionist Party...
Public sector unions are set to pose the most serious challenge yet to Gordon Brown's pay policy, when civil servants and teachers lead a co-ordinated walkout next week, involving hundreds of...
The Welsh Assembly Government is to set up a pan-public sector body to manage capital projects in the country to tackle delays and cost overruns, Andrew Davies has told Public Finance .
Leading finance officers in Scotland have warned that direct elections to health boards will not by themselves improve public and patient involvement in the running of the NHS or lead to better...
Councils have made efficiency gains well over target in the past three years, according to the government, but say the challenge to make further savings will be tougher.
Public sector trade union Unison has demanded action from the government after a study showed that the gender pay gap is as wide as ever and gets worse as women age.
Housing Corporation officials are keeping a close eye on loans to registered social landlords to ensure that housebuilding plans for the next three years are not derailed.
A former social security secretary has endorsed the ideas behind the government's welfare reform programme and called for services to be contracted out to independent providers.
Unions representing more than 200,000 local government workers in Scotland have rejected a three-year pay offer in what the employers claim is a volte-face.
With all eyes fixed on the Ken 'n' Boris show in London's mayoral contest, the local elections that are to take place in the rest of England and Wales on May 1 have generated relatively few column...
Anti-nuclear campaigners have seized on a parliamentary report that highlights the parlous state of funding for nuclear decommissioning to attack the government's plans for nuclear expansion.
